[pmwiki-users] Importing existing TWiki Pages into PMWiki

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:52:33PM -0500, Alan Hoyle wrote:
> On 1/2/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:11:19AM -0800, Bob Felts wrote:
> >>    I am unable to find anything on import of existing pages from another 
> >wiki
> >>    system into pmwiki.  Is this easily done?  My company has a few 
> >thousand
> >>    TWiki pages established, and I am considering switching to pmwiki.
> >>    However, this is impossible if we have to abandon all the work
> >>    accomplished to date. Any suggestions?
> >
> >I'm not too familiar with TWiki -- does it have a feature or option
> >to export your existing pages into files or something that could
> >be easily processed?  If so, I could see about implementing something
> >that could then convert those into PmWiki-compatible formats.
> >
> >I've done something similar in the past for UseMod wiki pages, and
> >it mostly works, although there are often some things that don't
> >map exactly (for UseMod, subpages don't have an exact mapping;
> >for TWiki there might be some issues with the hierarchical structure
> >that TWiki uses).
> 
> When I was first installing wikis, I had a TWiki and PhpWiki
> installations.  TWiki is Perl-based and uses flat files, though it has
> an incompatible wiki markup format.

Oh, that makes things easier.  I'm not totally familiar with TWiki's
markup format.  Any chance you could send me a few page files from 
your TWiki site containing a representative set of markup that 
I could work with?  I could see about building a TWiki converter
from that.

Pm